Filing appliance.



J. EAGLES.

FILING APPLIANCE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, I914.

K Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

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FILING APELIANCE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 25,1914. Serial No. 874,060.

ments, in which one or more prongs carried by a suitable base receive the documents, with a folding flap to press them down and retain them in position.

This invention consists in the construction or arrangement of the prongs and flap whereby the punching of the documents is position to retain the documents on the file.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figures 1 and 2. Perspective views of one form of the appliance open and closed.

Fig. 3. End elevation of same. Fig. 4. Transverse section of the retaining flap for same, enlarged.

The appliance is constructed with a frame A of wire with two prongs C and a transverse base or plate. B of sheet metal, and

hinged to'e, fixed longitudinal member of the'wire frame is a flap D to fold over the prongs C and a pivoted catch or fastening device E to engage the flap and retain it in a closed position over the ends of the prongs C. l l

The wire frame A. with its prongs and the fixed longitudinal member on which the flap D is hinged is all in one piece.

The flap D is also in one piece being made of sheet metal bent double to form a channel section with holes at formed in the lower ply into which the ends of the. prongs C project to punch or pierce the documents as the flap D is closed upon them, the upper ply of the flap resting on the ends of the prongs and forming a, stop to prevent the flap being ushed too far down.

The onto or fastening device E is preferably made of wire bent to the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 pivoted to the end of the frame A with a transverse member 6 to enter between the plies of or over the flap D when the latter is closed upon the prongs (3. Two such catches are one need be employed.

I claim z-- v v 1. A. filing appliance comprising a bent wire frame, a longitudinal cover member, a lockin device, a bottom plate, and a back plate tor the wire frame, said wire frame shown, but only Patented Jan. '2, i ll r terminating in U-shaped ends, said locking device being pivoted in an extension of the back plate, and adapted to secure said cover member in its closed position, substantially as described.

2. A filing appliance comprising a, bottom plate, a wire frame supported in the bottom plate, a cover member formed with a channel section and a locking piece adapted to enter said channel section, substantielly' as described. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed my name, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of November, 1914-.

EDNA Cause,

JOHN FREDERICK WATERHOUSE. 

